
Two Arizona-based artists have events coming up this week.
Poet Sean Nevin will be reading the evening of Thursday, May 7 at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe along with Prescott poet Jim Natal. Nevin will read from Oblivio Gate, a critically acclaimed collection of poetry about loss and memory. For more information on the reading go here.
On Friday and Saturday, May 8 & 9, performance artist Denise Uyehara hosts The Senkotsu (Mis)Translation Project at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA.
Project description: "Inspired by an Okinawan tradition in which the bones of the deceased are washed and placed in tombs, this project remembers the U.S. occupation of Okinawa via a series of interactive rituals." For more information go to deniseuyehara.com.